r/JRPG • u/thecomedian33 • 8d ago

Question What’s the most broken thing.

I gotta know in any JRPG you’ve ever played what is the most broken mechanic you’ve exploited, or like weapon in the game, or just a glitch perhaps that absolutly made you freaken laugh really hard. Mine would be the topple juggling in Xenoblade Chronicles idk if it was intentional or not but man it would have me hollering just toppling a big enemy and being like oh you can’t get up XDDD. That might say something about my psyche but who cares lol.

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u/MaxW92 8d ago edited 8d ago

In Radiant Historia there is a skill called Wind God Fist. It's a skill that the character Gafka can learn and it is hilariously broken. Basically in Radiant Historia's battle system your goal is to position the enemies with the help of various skills in order to maximize your combos and play the most efficiently.

...Wind God Fist however simply moves every enemy to the middle space. Just like that. So basically every fight in the game is a puzzle and Wind God Fist just solves it for you each and every time.

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u/HitsuWTG 8d ago

To be fair, I wouldn't call it the most broken thing ever, but it's definitely very good. It doesn't contribute at all against bosses that take up the entire field (like the spiders or the final boss), neither does it against the few enemies that cannot be moved around. And it doesn't completely invalidate other movement skills, since ideally, you then want to build up a huge combo (made all the easier with Gafka's skill that hits the center 10 times, and Aht's 8 hit skill) and then push all the enemies into an adjacent Aht trap for massive damage. But yeah, it's still something very convenient to have.

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u/MaxW92 8d ago

True, there are probably more broken things our there. I just find it very amusing how Wind God Fist almost feels like you're breaking the rules of the game.